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Three Decades of Research: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education
School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education.
Sex Education in the Spotlight: What Is Working? Systematic Review
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of what is known about the dissemination and effectiveness of sex education programs and thereby to inform better public policy making in this area. Methodology: We carried out a systematic review based on international scientific literature, in which only peer-reviewed papers were included. To ...
Sex Education that Goes Beyond Sex
A recent study from Columbia University's Sexual Health Initative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) project suggests that comprehensive sex education protects students from sexual assault even after high school. If students become more well-practiced in thinking about caring for one another, they'll be less likely to commit — and be less ...
More comprehensive sex education reduced teen births: Quasi
In this study, we focus attention on federal funding for more comprehensive sex education that was received by a mix of public and private organizations in 55 US counties. Our analyses provide population-level causal evidence that funding for more comprehensive sex education led to an overall reduction in the teen birth rate at the county level ...
(PDF) Assessing the effectiveness of school-based sex education in
Objective: To systematically review and synthesise evidence on the effectiveness of school-based sex education interventions on sexual health behaviour outcomes and to identify Behaviour Change ...
School-based Sex Education in the U.S. at a Crossroads: Taking the
School-based sex education in the U.S. is at a crossroads. The United Nations defines sex education as a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical, and social aspects of sexuality [1]. Over many years, sex education has had strong support among both parents [2] and health professionals [3-6], yet the receipt of sex education among U.S ...
Comprehensive sexuality education
Well-designed and well-delivered sexuality education programmes support positive decision-making around sexual health. Evidence shows that young people are more likely to initiate sexual activity later - and when they do have sex, to practice safer sex - when they are better informed about sexuality, sexual relations and their rights.
Development of Contextually-relevant Sexuality Education: Lessons from
1.1. Sex Education. Sex education refers to "an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sex and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, non-judgmental information" [] (p. 69).This definition acknowledges that the aim of sex education extends beyond the transfer of knowledge on human physiology, reproductive system, or the prevention of STIs.
Effectiveness of relationships and sex education: A systematic review
Yang et al. (2020) reported on the results of a US pre- and post-test study of a 9-session medical student-led sex education program with Grade 9 students. Outcomes were assessed using a 27-item multiple choice knowledge retention questionnaire (relating to anatomy, safe sex, pregnancy, STIs, puberty, and healthy living), and 8 personal ...
Comprehensive Sex Education—Why Should We Care?
Proponents of LGBTQIA+ sex education argue that encompassing homosexuality into the curricula would provide LGBTQIA+ students with the sexual health information they need, and help to ameliorate problems such as low self-esteem and depression that research has shown can be present in LGBTQIA+ individuals. 11 A qualitative study explored ...
Full article: Assessing the role of school-based sex education in
For each included study, school-based sex education interventions were deemed effective if there was a statistically significant difference between the intervention and comparison groups for at least one of the objective measures of sexual health behaviours (e.g. scores etc). To assess statistical significance, this review selected p < 0.05 as ...
The effectiveness of school-based sex education programs in the
The search for school-based sex education interventions resulted in 12 research studies that complied with the criteria to be included in the review and for which effect sizes could be estimated. The overall effect size ( d +) estimated from these studies was 0.05 and the 95% confidence interval about the mean included a lower bound of 0.01 to ...
What else can sex education do? Logics and effects in classroom
Critical sexuality education studies (McClelland and Fine, 2017) highlight how school-based sex education is not a neutral vehicle of knowledge transmission.It critiques sex education logic, highlighting the individualistic, neoliberal approach to sexuality that it relies on (Bay-Cheng, 2017), which comes at the cost of attention to power differences, sexual agency and sexual pleasure (among ...
Comprehensive sexuality education: For healthy, informed and ...
Comprehensive sexuality education - or the many other ways this may be referred to - is a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality. It aims to equip children and young people with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that empowers them to realize their health ...
Three Decades of Research: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education
Purpose: School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive ...
The State of Sex Education in the United States
Trends in Adolescents' Receipt of Sex Education. In this month's Journal of Adolescent Health, Lindberg et al. [] provide further insight into the current state of sex education and the implications of federal and state policies for adolescents in the United States.Using population data from the National Survey of Family Growth, they find reductions in U.S. adolescents' receipt of formal ...
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(PDF) Sex education: A review of its effects
The sex education in the 12 studies in this section usually consisted of. some combination of lectures, discussions, guest speakers, and study. projects. Significant improvements in sexual ...
Three Decades of Research: The Case for Comprehensive Sex Education
School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence ...
Comprehensive sexuality education as a primary prevention strategy for
21/25 studies: Traditional aim of sex education is to reduce these factors, so they are likely to be reduced by NSES-CSE. Gender transformative programming and CSA prevention programming also likely to affect these factors. Impersonal sex: 12/13 studies: Early initiation of sex: 7/7 studies: Sexual risk taking: 4/5 studies: Positive for STI: 3/ ...
Sexuality Education for Children and Adolescents
Sexuality education can be disseminated through the 3 learning domains: cognitive (information), affective (feelings, values, and attitudes), and behavioral (communication, decision-making, and other skills). 5. Sexuality education is more than the instruction of children and adolescents on anatomy and the physiology of biological sex and ...
PDF "Sex Education: Level of Knowledge and Its Effects on Sexual ...
This presents that majority of the senior high school students have no sexual partners with a frequency of 684 out of 846 and a mean percentage of 80.85. Moreover, there are 93 (10%) respondents who had 1-2 sexual partners followed by. 45 (5.32%) who had 3-5 and lastly 24 (2.84%) who had more than 5 sexual partners. 3.
US Adolescents' Receipt of Formal Sex Education
Adolescents were less likely to report receiving sex education on key topics in 2015-2019 than they were in 1995. 9. In 1995, 81% of adolescent males and 87% of adolescent females reported that they had received instruction on birth control methods, while in 2015-2019, 63% of males and 64% of females reported receiving instruction on this ...
Federally Funded Sex Education: Strengthening and Expanding Evidence
There are currently no federal programs dedicated to funding and expanding access to comprehensive sex education, which is considered the gold standard of sex education. Comprehensive sex education covers a broad range of topics, including human development, relationships, communication and decision-making skills, sexual behavior, sexual health ...
Why Sex Education Matters
Why Sex Education Matters. In 2014, a study found that 93% of parents supported having sex education in middle school and 96% supported teaching sex ed in high school. A 2017 study again found that 93% of parents favored sexuality education in schools. These are not isolated results; decades of research support the benefits of comprehensive ...
Sex Education: 5 Strategies with Resources to Support Students
To learn more strategies and resources about educating students on this topic, Teaching Channel offers course 5361: Teaching Relationships, Health, and Sex Education, a comprehensive look at the ways teachers, counselors, and health educators can effectively address the complex and important subjects of relationships, sex, and health education ...
"I wouldn't have felt so alone": The sexual health education
Results: Our study participants described school-based sexual health education as unhelpful due to a lack of relevant information, inadequately prepared teachers, and a perceived negative tone toward sexuality. They reported relying on online sources of sexual health information, finding relevant content and community despite some limitations.
National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior
The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB) is the largest nationally representative probability survey focused on understanding sex in the United States. Conducted by researchers at, or affiliated with, the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at the Indiana University School of Public Health, the NSSHB is an ongoing multi-wave ...
Abstinence-only sex education linked to higher pornography use ...
A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior has found a relationship between the type of sexuality education women receive and their subsequent use of pornography. Women who were ...
Sex education impacted by 30-year-old abstinence movement : NPR
States and local school boards make requirements for the education that K-12 students receive about sex and their bodies. Leslie Kantor, a public health professor at Rutgers University, worked in ...
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School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive sex education.
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of what is known about the dissemination and effectiveness of sex education programs and thereby to inform better public policy making in this area. Methodology: We carried out a systematic review based on international scientific literature, in which only peer-reviewed papers were included. To ...
A recent study from Columbia University's Sexual Health Initative to Foster Transformation (SHIFT) project suggests that comprehensive sex education protects students from sexual assault even after high school. If students become more well-practiced in thinking about caring for one another, they'll be less likely to commit — and be less ...
In this study, we focus attention on federal funding for more comprehensive sex education that was received by a mix of public and private organizations in 55 US counties. Our analyses provide population-level causal evidence that funding for more comprehensive sex education led to an overall reduction in the teen birth rate at the county level ...
Objective: To systematically review and synthesise evidence on the effectiveness of school-based sex education interventions on sexual health behaviour outcomes and to identify Behaviour Change ...
School-based sex education in the U.S. is at a crossroads. The United Nations defines sex education as a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical, and social aspects of sexuality [1]. Over many years, sex education has had strong support among both parents [2] and health professionals [3-6], yet the receipt of sex education among U.S ...
Well-designed and well-delivered sexuality education programmes support positive decision-making around sexual health. Evidence shows that young people are more likely to initiate sexual activity later - and when they do have sex, to practice safer sex - when they are better informed about sexuality, sexual relations and their rights.
1.1. Sex Education. Sex education refers to "an age-appropriate, culturally relevant approach to teaching about sex and relationships by providing scientifically accurate, realistic, non-judgmental information" [] (p. 69).This definition acknowledges that the aim of sex education extends beyond the transfer of knowledge on human physiology, reproductive system, or the prevention of STIs.
Yang et al. (2020) reported on the results of a US pre- and post-test study of a 9-session medical student-led sex education program with Grade 9 students. Outcomes were assessed using a 27-item multiple choice knowledge retention questionnaire (relating to anatomy, safe sex, pregnancy, STIs, puberty, and healthy living), and 8 personal ...
Proponents of LGBTQIA+ sex education argue that encompassing homosexuality into the curricula would provide LGBTQIA+ students with the sexual health information they need, and help to ameliorate problems such as low self-esteem and depression that research has shown can be present in LGBTQIA+ individuals. 11 A qualitative study explored ...
For each included study, school-based sex education interventions were deemed effective if there was a statistically significant difference between the intervention and comparison groups for at least one of the objective measures of sexual health behaviours (e.g. scores etc). To assess statistical significance, this review selected p < 0.05 as ...
The search for school-based sex education interventions resulted in 12 research studies that complied with the criteria to be included in the review and for which effect sizes could be estimated. The overall effect size ( d +) estimated from these studies was 0.05 and the 95% confidence interval about the mean included a lower bound of 0.01 to ...
Critical sexuality education studies (McClelland and Fine, 2017) highlight how school-based sex education is not a neutral vehicle of knowledge transmission.It critiques sex education logic, highlighting the individualistic, neoliberal approach to sexuality that it relies on (Bay-Cheng, 2017), which comes at the cost of attention to power differences, sexual agency and sexual pleasure (among ...
Comprehensive sexuality education - or the many other ways this may be referred to - is a curriculum-based process of teaching and learning about the cognitive, emotional, physical and social aspects of sexuality. It aims to equip children and young people with knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that empowers them to realize their health ...
Purpose: School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence for the effectiveness of comprehensive ...
Trends in Adolescents' Receipt of Sex Education. In this month's Journal of Adolescent Health, Lindberg et al. [] provide further insight into the current state of sex education and the implications of federal and state policies for adolescents in the United States.Using population data from the National Survey of Family Growth, they find reductions in U.S. adolescents' receipt of formal ...
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The sex education in the 12 studies in this section usually consisted of. some combination of lectures, discussions, guest speakers, and study. projects. Significant improvements in sexual ...
School-based sex education plays a vital role in the sexual health and well-being of young people. Little is known, however, about the effectiveness of efforts beyond pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease prevention. The authors conducted a systematic literature review of three decades of research on school-based programs to find evidence ...
21/25 studies: Traditional aim of sex education is to reduce these factors, so they are likely to be reduced by NSES-CSE. Gender transformative programming and CSA prevention programming also likely to affect these factors. Impersonal sex: 12/13 studies: Early initiation of sex: 7/7 studies: Sexual risk taking: 4/5 studies: Positive for STI: 3/ ...
Sexuality education can be disseminated through the 3 learning domains: cognitive (information), affective (feelings, values, and attitudes), and behavioral (communication, decision-making, and other skills). 5. Sexuality education is more than the instruction of children and adolescents on anatomy and the physiology of biological sex and ...
This presents that majority of the senior high school students have no sexual partners with a frequency of 684 out of 846 and a mean percentage of 80.85. Moreover, there are 93 (10%) respondents who had 1-2 sexual partners followed by. 45 (5.32%) who had 3-5 and lastly 24 (2.84%) who had more than 5 sexual partners. 3.
Adolescents were less likely to report receiving sex education on key topics in 2015-2019 than they were in 1995. 9. In 1995, 81% of adolescent males and 87% of adolescent females reported that they had received instruction on birth control methods, while in 2015-2019, 63% of males and 64% of females reported receiving instruction on this ...
There are currently no federal programs dedicated to funding and expanding access to comprehensive sex education, which is considered the gold standard of sex education. Comprehensive sex education covers a broad range of topics, including human development, relationships, communication and decision-making skills, sexual behavior, sexual health ...
Why Sex Education Matters. In 2014, a study found that 93% of parents supported having sex education in middle school and 96% supported teaching sex ed in high school. A 2017 study again found that 93% of parents favored sexuality education in schools. These are not isolated results; decades of research support the benefits of comprehensive ...
To learn more strategies and resources about educating students on this topic, Teaching Channel offers course 5361: Teaching Relationships, Health, and Sex Education, a comprehensive look at the ways teachers, counselors, and health educators can effectively address the complex and important subjects of relationships, sex, and health education ...
Results: Our study participants described school-based sexual health education as unhelpful due to a lack of relevant information, inadequately prepared teachers, and a perceived negative tone toward sexuality. They reported relying on online sources of sexual health information, finding relevant content and community despite some limitations.
The National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior (NSSHB) is the largest nationally representative probability survey focused on understanding sex in the United States. Conducted by researchers at, or affiliated with, the Center for Sexual Health Promotion at the Indiana University School of Public Health, the NSSHB is an ongoing multi-wave ...
A recent study published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior has found a relationship between the type of sexuality education women receive and their subsequent use of pornography. Women who were ...
States and local school boards make requirements for the education that K-12 students receive about sex and their bodies. Leslie Kantor, a public health professor at Rutgers University, worked in ...